挑水过河

    从前有个孩子，做事爱动脑筋。

    一天，他和几个同学在学校门前的小河边玩耍。老师挑着一担水走过来，说：“小河涨（zhǎng）水了，河水贴近竹桥桥面了。我想看看你们谁最聪明，能把这担水挑过去，还不弄湿鞋子。”

    一个同学挑起这担水，轻轻地走上桥。走到桥中间的时候，小竹桥被压弯了，河水没过桥面，鞋子湿了，他只好退回来。大家一看都不敢再试了。

    这个爱动脑筋的孩子想了想，说：“让我试试看。”只见他先用绳子把水桶系（jì）在扁担的两头；再横挑着扁担走上桥头，轻轻地把两只水桶分放到小桥两边的河水里；然后两只手抓着扁担的中间，推着它，慢慢地走过了小桥，鞋子一点儿也没有湿。

    大家看了，齐声说：“你的办法真好！”老师笑着点点头。

Saturday, February 25th

    The Turn off (关掉) TV Week starts today. People who organize (组织) it say that TV is a bad thing. I' m not sure if they're 1 .

First of all, the organizers say that children today are in bad physical condition (身体状况) because they 2 almost all their free time in front of the TV. But a 3 of 10,000 American children aged 10 to 15 found no connection (联系,) between TV and physical health. Children who don't watch TV don't always do more 4 .

    Of course, there are some terrible programs on TV. 5 I don't think we should say no to TV. We 6 need to choose programs good for us ourselves. Another 7 that the organizers agree on （同意) is that TV stops us from talking with others. An American study found that parents in homes with no TV had an hour of talk with 8 children every day. In other homes, there was only 38 minutes of talk …… a week! That's bad. But TV can also bring people together and 9 to start a talk. Is there a better way to start a talk than by talking about, the latest popular programs?

    Turn off my TV? OK. But I also10 to turn it on when there's something good on.